coffins they're man's best friend people say that about dogs but no
coffins are much better where i'm from nobody has a dog but
everyone has their own coffin there are coffin adoption centers coffin
breeding programs or to meet the demand but this video is not about the
advantages of trading your dog for a coffin
it's about something much worse
in 1836 a group of children were hunting rabbits in the outskirts of Edinburgh
wandering into a small cave they found something much stranger than rabbits
17 miniature coffins less than four inches long each contain this small
wooden doll carved with their eyes wide open and
dressed in cotton words soon spread of rediscovery
but no one seems to have had any clue they existed
some came to believe they were the corpses of a kind of mythical creature
perhaps they were dead fairies or goblins others said the coffins were
part of a ritual performed by local witches
no sign of who left them was ever seen and still today the purpose and origin
of the coffins remain a mystery
in 2011 a large coffin was unearthed at a New York construction site
this kind of thing is known to happen from time to time
but unlike the others this coffin was airtight and entirely made of iron
inside a mummified human corpse was found
it was in such good condition police initially thought she was a recent
homicide victim maybe a mafia hit considering its
location but the body was soon dated to the
mid-1800s only being preserved thanks to the
coffin at the time airtight iron coffins were briefly in fashion
with even a first lady being buried in one they were very expensive
and usually reserved for the most privileged in society
but the body discovered was a black woman of modest means
who she was and why she was afforded such a prestigious burial is unknown
in a remote region of china there once lived a people who refused to bury their
dead instead they raised the coffin of a dead community member high up
and attached it to the side of a mountain the mountains here are littered
with fragments of bone and coffin wood as even above ground a coffin cannot
last forever it's unknown why this practice was
started but it's thought to go back thousands of years with the oldest known
being three thousand the ethnic group who did it no longer
exist so perhaps we will never know why
not long ago a man was walking through a small Mexican city
passing by a bridge he noticed a hole in its base
and looking inside found rows of coffins stacked on top of each other
19 coffins were hidden inside the bridge as many people had recently gone missing
in the area he assumed their corpses were inside
concerned he posted images of the coffins online
which soon went viral local authorities claimed the bridge was
simply used for storage and the coffins were empty but many
don't believe this official story
thirty years ago a mysterious coffin was discovered in a gravel quarry
strangely the corpse inside had clearly been mutilated in horrific ways
it turns out he died two centuries ago at a time when connecticut was in the
grip of a vampire scare people saw vampires everywhere and
feared their own dead relatives might soon rise again
and so it became common practice to mutilate the corpses of recently dead
cutting out their hearts and burning it that's what happens to the corpse
discovered in the quarry but even more strangely it seems to have
been buried twice only after the first burial did his
family decide to resurrect and mutilate him
just to be sure he would not rise as a vampire
four years ago a small victorian artifact was unearthed in a San Francisco
home at first it appeared to be a time
capsule but being made of glass its discoverers soon realized it was
actually a coffin a tiny coffin for a two-year-old girl it
was a long time before the girl's identity was uncovered
but eventually she was named as Edith Howard Cook
member of one of San Francisco's most powerful families
it's not really that mysterious i just think having a glass coffin is only a
waste of glass
not long ago a gigantic black sarcophagus was discovered in
Egypt nine feet long and six feet tall it's among the largest
ever discovered and made of dark granite it was a unique
find many warned researchers not to open the sarcophagus
fearing it might be cursed but it was dated to around the time Alexander the
great conquered Egypt and legend tells his corpse was
taken to Egypt after death so they could not resist the chance to
identify his resting place inside they did not find Alexander but
three different skeletons surrounded by some kind of thick brown
liquid their names and that'll be strange
liquid is unknown but so far no curse seems to have been unleashed
the coffin at a recent Indonesian funeral traumatized some attendees
as the coffin was lowered into the ground the body inside appeared to wave
footage of a funeral clearly shows its arm move
causing some to claim he was buried alive others claim the coffin itself is
haunted most however believe rigor mortis is to
blame whatever the truth it scared a lot of people
Charles Francis Coghlan was a famous 19th century actor
but today he is more known for the strange fate of his coffin
he died in texas in 1899 and was given a metal casket
bizarrely his relatives could not decide what to do next
whether to bury or cremate him then before they had decided
the coffin was swept away in floods caused by a hurricane
the coffin was gone and for several years after
a reward was offered to anyone able to recover it
this caused anyone who found a coffin at sea to claim it was him
as far away as Canada people claimed to find the coffin washed up on the shore
still now it remains a mystery
in 1934 a strange rumor emerged from the soviet union
according to it the coffin of one of Russia's long dead czars had been
opened but found to be empty there was no sign of Tsar Alexander's remains
igniting another rumor this time much older
Alexander was a deeply troubled man having helped organize the murder of his
own father then in 1825 he died at a relatively
young age but after his funeral some began to
claim he faked his death and an empty coffin was laid to rest it
was said he retired in secret to a monastery in remote Siberia
since then debate over his fate and the supposedly empty coffin have lived on